Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-08-16

dust and from HEADouARTERs, the
adulteratcd stuff (with two and three
and four extra profits) of BALTIMORE,
New ORLEANS and SAN FRANCISCO
aoI not do-you must be final author
ity on REAL VALUES. Justsse this
NORTH AND SOUTH CARO-
LIMA TERRoR-smashed beyond rec
orhition under the iron heels of the
atrocious credit Caesar and the part
nership CAR, BARBAR1ANs BOTH. He
read a sentence of our monthly of
May, 1885, that set his blood and
brain afire, and who reads OF his
deadly graple and his magnificent tri-
umphs without feeling the throb and
throe of enthusiasm, ambition and
pride? What CHARLOTTE and CoLuM-
BIA DAVIS has done, You can match
and beat IF roU VIII. He began with
t,celve hundred and he can tel you the
rest. Yet DAVIS sold one hundred
thousand the first year and half-I
sVas magnificent. But if YOU want an
Illustration of desperation, the writer
would lead you bak to the liliputians
of CHURCH STREET, fifty thousand
worse than poverty, acith a million
sales IN eighteen months. You MAY
BEAT THAT, TOO, RIDLEY heat it, be-
ginning in his diminutiv 10 by II, in
Grand street. MACY beat it-and the
PARDR1DGE Bors too, and you young
in years; without the. fifty thousand
milstone, but with your name and
som coin, your ambition unclouded
by defeat, your record untarnished
by the midnight marches down thro
the internal caverns Of the credit hell
yes, you can, you ought, and (read
oUer d0ain) YOU MUST BEAT 1T! Zoo
strong2 No, s1R-Nor By THOUSAND
MILLIONS! Try once. Let loose in al
their intensity. your splendid abilities
in ambition and genius and pluck and
grim resolution, and it viii come in
dead earnest. Here and there the
fight may be desperate, but it must
come. The kids and silk hat and
coat must come off, sometimes the
shirt-in CHURCH STREET the very
hide peeled off, but pres on, for right
ahcd lay that grand prize for which
THE GREAT HEARTED CHILDREN OF
FAME at IIS uGIuSS3, IIlthU S'IGhN'SA sum-
ecord SUCCESS.
Having visited these successful mercantile
leaders and heard the story and sized the sit
uation enthused with the enchantment of net
spOt-,nOney-Clo'cn. quik. rapid, large and in
creasing sales, they write
WHEN, WHERE, WHAT =:
When? TO-DAY, NOT To-MoRRow.
Where? It is not in the place. but ALI. IN
THE MAN. and the larger the field the greater
the results. The writer would give the same
H. ind fCr tra Or
homcward from APPoMATToX. his fortune
gone, pcniles disheartened by defeat and utter
rrlin-total ascts a captured horse (AH! THAT
FEARLEsS. MAGNIFICENT: IMMORIAt
and a thirty shooter. What folly to talk to
STEWART and CHAPLIN Gold personal friends
of the writcr) of such capital in such shape at
such time! No money. no credit and an an
teI,cIiu1n debt of ELEVEN THOUSAND. it seemed
the su6limity of audacity to play the great
game of life with such q hand. with such men
in the worlds metropolis. Prudence and old
time friends would suggest more moderate am
bition-" Try WISCEEsTER. among 'rhCSe
splendid People your mercantile history begGn"-
PRUDESCE? The desperate confederate knew
not the meaning of any such word. and us for
friends there was oceans of sympathy. but that
diminutiv bundle of pluk and ambition (tihe
the singed cat, better than he to0tec) wanted n
tiket TO New York, and the conductor didn't
pass on sympathy. nor did he care to hear how
we had :. diiueFi the Yankees. SHE wanted
BULLION. aud that live stuff the thrcdbare rem
nant OF the rebellion did not hav. and he then
had no friends. But it was New YORK in re-
ality in dreamland behind the plOw again,
after the reaper. shcnf and shcaf about, from
day-brcak until day-break again. day after
day. that song never died out. that splendid
melody that with this writer vii never cease
until the last inevitable hOur-NEw YORK
This then, boiled down. is the anser-If you
hav the ncrI and pluk. come to the GREAT
MART or THE WORLD. il not, then the next
Iargcst-always bearing in mind the larger the
a H. r,Fn,-fl .a, nj
WHAT? Bargains; dHytiting-thc people buy
everything, but they want bargains. RoBrN-
SONS Cthe apple pic ridge pillow boys). ordered
cassinercs and VIC sent them thousand dozen
of wet COX and handkerchicfs that had como
up from tue bottom of the old blue oceHn-nnd
they Gust and swore, but it was the 7iU0t upon
which turned their first hundred thousand =
They tel us now that even after eleven years
some of the old-fashioned apple-jack-dcd-and-
buried-f fellows come in and ask for the nee cent
soz and h01IdferctieCs! Ever after they would
sd 10 their order. q fl mp with your own char
acteristic selections. they always melt off first.
zee neUer return anything"
The masses want a full dollars worth. and for
the cash they hay right to it. and u You mean
to be the merchant prince Of your nGtu hills, you
must qir them bargains.
Every year thirty-six thousand mercantile
enterprises jump into the commercial arena to
triumph or pcrish-and every twelve months
thirty-fOur thousand jump oil or are crowded
down into 2nnilItIatOn--OlIt OF this vast nlIIII-
Der the car of credit claims eleven siXtecnths
(cOld OIoOded stdfisfi1). his barbarian brothers
(PAKTNERSHIP and BARLECoRS) another three
sixtcenths. Personal friends another fraction.
leaving one solitary man of every nineteen
standing up in line of battle. 1t is worse than
MDOSALDs charge at WAGRAM, and almost
equal to the mortal charge of PICKETT's
chivalrous SONS at GETTYSBURG. But IT IS
50. OF this vast army of cOnscripts Onc-hnlf
arc swept out of existence by the ledger lock-
jaw the first year. negotiables endorsed by
relatives, preachers. politicians and other
WORTHLESS nOncntitics and bambOnZlcrs make
Guik and dccisiv work with the frail wreck.
and the final arbitrator. the paper mill, Iculps
down the last vcstige of the first race of life.
One out Of the three hundred hav the metal
and pluk to try it over again; weary of the old
credit monster, they steer clear of the fatal
breakers that had wrought such mischief and
havoc aud destruction in the first charge, they
follow the iron rule OF money down, and re-
claim the lost prestige and popularity, bat not
the time; thirst for prominence. blugras. pleas
urc and big show. again sweeps the plateau
and tho loses are lighter the carnage is still
terrific. and but nineteen of one hundred are
left. From the ashes of utter ruin there energies
but one of six hundrcd-Ont Of this vast army.
one single champion stands up in the traklcss
waste. and in the last desperate chances not one
of ten thousand OutliVc the final struggle. With
the writer it was first, H,R 1cdr. next The credit
king, and lastly. the most terrible of all. CO.
PARTNERSHIP. These InOnstrnIs calamitics
left this author nearly fifty thousand beIo'1 zero
Just eleven years ago-G1d forty gears OM in
the autumn and searlcaf, i'll audaciOus pluk
and unduuntcd desperation, in the last final
graplc with fate and time and chance. merit
and coin and perseverance, ICOn-aTd tho it may
be but one of round million still ii SllO|rS ICIGt
a man can fo-standing between HEAVEN and
HE'LL. What has been dOnc may be matched
and bcatcn-and to the level headed aspirant.
rich in ambition and courage aud integrity who
will heed these words of warning. who viii learn
from the persisted hopes that macHdcn'iZc that